Algorithms Contracts in the North West

Algorithms
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Algorithms in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Algorithms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 122 140
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 +25
Contract jobs citing Algorithms 20 15 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.54% 0.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.57% 2.02% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 13
10th Percentile £451 £463 £455
25th Percentile £496 £480 £486
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -3.58% -3.20%
75th Percentile £655 £609 £569
90th Percentile £674 £656 £587
England median daily rate £625 £588 £600
% change year-on-year +6.38% -2.08% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £22.59 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £52.50 -
Median hourly rate £25.43 £55.00 £66.69
Median % change year-on-year -53.76% -17.53% -
75th Percentile £28.75 £57.50 -
90th Percentile £29.50 - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £55.00 £26.25
% change year-on-year +4.55% +109.52% -41.67%

All Generic Skills
North West

Algorithms falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Algorithms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Algorithms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Algorithms in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Algorithms in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Algorithms in the North West

Algorithms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Algorithms within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cheshire +8 9 £563 - 9
Cumbria +4 5 - - 1
Manchester +9 4 £455 -17.27% 30
Lancashire - 2 £550 - 10
Algorithms
England

Algorithms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) Azure AI
2 4 (20.00%) GCP
2 4 (20.00%) Google Gemini
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (15.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Metadata
1 5 (25.00%) Tableau
2 4 (20.00%) Neo4j
3 2 (10.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) GitLab
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (45.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (15.00%) Automotive
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 2 (10.00%) iOS Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 6 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) AVFoundation
2 2 (10.00%) iOS SDK
2 2 (10.00%) OpenCV
2 2 (10.00%) UIKit
3 1 (5.00%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.00%) LDAP
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth
3 1 (5.00%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.00%) OLE
3 1 (5.00%) OpenID
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) PKI
2 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 15 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (55.00%) Decision-Making
3 11 (55.00%) Mathematics
4 9 (45.00%) CI/CD
4 9 (45.00%) Machine Learning
4 9 (45.00%) Pattern Recognition
4 9 (45.00%) Statistics
5 8 (40.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 7 (35.00%) Data Science
6 7 (35.00%) Visualisation
7 6 (30.00%) Agile
7 6 (30.00%) Containerisation
7 6 (30.00%) Generative AI
7 6 (30.00%) LLM
7 6 (30.00%) SDLC
8 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
8 5 (25.00%) Data Management
8 5 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) R
2 3 (15.00%) Scala
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) AUTOSAR
1 3 (15.00%) GDPR
2 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.00%) NCSC
3 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Ariba
2 1 (5.00%) SAP